Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-08-07 | Page 10 | Lynch Negro in Missouri

NEGRO IN MISSOURI Armed Police Unable to Prevent Mob Entering Jail EXCELSIOR SPRINGS Mo Ag g g. 7 A 1 l A-l Miller Mitchell n gro was vas lynched by a crowd near flint the Excelsior Springs bottling works late today KANSAS CITY Aug tug 7 4 tA W T policemen armed 1 with ilot riot guns were dispatched here h re to- to tod d 1 y for Excelsior Springs where a. a menacing 0 crowd was reported to have nive gathered outside the Jail in w w Lich Miller Mitchell a n negro was confined for an alleged attempt at assault on a young girl The girl was returning in a mo mo- tr r rear car from Lawson Mo Io last night n ht with a young man when a a. negro threatening the life Ilfe of or her escort dragged her from The car r screams however frightened the man away awa The Tho man was trailed to this city ity Mitchell cell was arrested and identified by the glIs II's I's Is escort as her assailant The crowd around the jail was wasn n rt ported to number perhaps persons and it was said that they ii iS d 1 attempted to batter bailer In the b bek ck door of tho jail It circulated angrily a about its members membEr ex- ex expressing ex tx expressing pressing determination to take the negro and lynch him In a brief brict telephone conversa con conversation tion J J. J J J. J Love deputy sheriff avid that he was wasn in n the city hall building b in which the jail jall I ie situated ed Id and that officers wore were doing everything Iv 1 ii their power to per per- persuade persuade suade the rapidly growing grow In crowd not to 1 r ak Into the jail ail 00 op